The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 4
Manus gladly wrapped the shawl round his arm, and was leaving the house, when he heard the rattling of a chain blown by the wind.
Who acts: Manus, chain · What happens: wrap, leave, hear, blow, rattle · To what, where: shawl, house, rattling, chain
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manus, chain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manus | manus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 wrapped | advmod |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shawl | det |
| 5 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leaving | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaving | aux |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wrapped | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaving | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rattling | det |
| 20 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chain | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chain | det |
| 23 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rattling | nmod |
| 24 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 chain | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 wind | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wind | det |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blown | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | Manus | the shawl | round Manus's arm; gladly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shawl=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past · progressive | Manus not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Manus | the rattling of a chain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rattling=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | blow | participle | a chain not said here | by the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rattle | a chain | nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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